Neons
Neon Minimalism II, 2019.
Neon Minimalist tapestries and the Ferns series are inspired both by the craft history of neon and Carmen Herrera’s minimalist abstract paintings. The tapestries are woven with wool from sheep raised by my father and stepmother. Colors are chosen to muddy a distinction between contemporary and traditional by intermixing medium, colors and symbols from different locations in time, and transposing them into singular compositions.
The Ferns pieces reference neon signs, a symbol of contemporaneous capitalism and force destroying our natural world. Bringing in forest imagery as the sign's language, this work is a billboard for ferns and other fractals found in nature, fighting for their lives and for ours.
This series seeks to give voice to a natural world and order that we are very much a part of although many of us have been taught that we are separate from it. This separation is false, just as the notion of contemporaneity is a distinction between future and past that is nonexistent in the quantum world.
